SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 22, 8 March 1845, Page 4

SYDNEY.

By the Star of China, we have received files of the Australian, Sydney Morning Chronicle, Register, and Sydney Herald, to the 15, and by the Scotia, Capt. Ward, we have been favoured with perusal of dates to the 23rd February. * ' The Autumnes, barque was expected to leave Sydney for Auckland with the troops, abo.ut the end of the month. Two hundred scldiers of the 58th regiment are under orders to hold themselves in readiness to sail for New Zealand, and several gunners of the 99th regiment have been practising daily for some time, and will be sent with some heavy guns, to accompany the troops. This looks like a change in the New Zealand policy and one that has long been anxiously expected. — Australian Journal 20* A February.

Nat it is whispered that when the New Zealand Chiefs were asked by the official to fulfil their promise, they grinned, put their tongues in their cheeks, and|cried out, "Spooney! " — " Does your mother know your out?" — " Has your mother sold her mangle?" — and were guilty of many acts of indecorum and downright rudeness. His Honor, we believe, feels very sore on the subject. — New Zealand paper. We should think he did, and we sadly fear that it will be a sore subject to many persons besides his Honor. Progress — civilization — advancement — native grand jurors — native magisttatesr-native lords of the manor — white

men reduced to tenantcy, nay even, to villeinage — i a a<l paid for twice over — cold blooded masacres treated as amiable eccentricities — the pillage of houses — the insults to women — the twice cutting down and humbling in the dust of that invincible banner, that meteor flag of England, the very sight of which used to be a terror to the wildest barbarian ; the very thought of an insult to which had almost been enough to set the world in a blaze. Has all this been done — all this been suffered, by Captain Fitzroy, and when he seeks to reap the fruits of his theory of the perfectability of mankind, and of the virtues that slumber in the savage mind, ready to wake up at the first call of a beneficent Government ; is this his reward ? When this enlightened philanthropist asks of those cannibals, whose murders he has passed over, whose insults he has pocketed, whose robberies he has winked at, whose swindling he has ratified and confirmed — that they would be pleased to perform a promise, for entering into which they had been heavily paid ! How depressing must it have been to him to find that, in the law phrase, though often requested to perform their said promise, they had wholly neglecteJ so to do, and even went so far as to meet his petition with a playful suggestion of his inability to employ a knife and fork with proper effect, and an inquiry as to the degree of authority exercised over him by his female progenitor, and a not very complimentary suggestion as to the walk in life which she has selected for herself. In these few cant phrases is comprised the whole history of the fashionable policy towards aboriginal races. These words denote contempt, but it is not the contempt of ignorance or barbarian pride. The savage has learnt from the white man the language in which he ridicules the weak, and he applies it to the white man because he believes him to be weak. The policy of the New Zealand Government has been systematically addressed to destroy in the minds of the natives the prestige of superior civilization, conduct, and courage and it has succeeded. We have run away, and, they think us cowards. We have paid for thp same thing twice over, and they think v s dupes. We have believed their lies, and they think us fools. We have endured their insults, and therefore our national honor has become a jest. All these inferences are perfectly legitimate — all are the inevitable result of the only field of observation open to these unfortunate people. We know tnat these inferences are false, but how are they to be got rid of. We fully expect to hear of some tremendous catastrophe ; some frightful reprisal for the doings of Wairau, in which human nature, irritated to phrenzy by a long seires of unprovoked and unavenged outrages, will give fearful evidence of those uncontrollable passions which burn alike in the breasts of of the Christian and the Savage — which will do more to destroy our national character for humanity and forbearance, than the most oppressive treatment oi the natives, organized into a system, and carried on according to law. Thanks to ourselves, but no thanks to Sir George Gipps, we have in this colony escaped this degrading subjection. By rejecting the Bill for making the evidence of the Aborigines admissible, the Council gave unequivocal proof that they at least were no converts to Mr. Secretary Stephen's Aboriginal theory, and by thus showing that nothing was to be hoped from them in this direction, they have probably saved the country from a succession of ruinous experiments on the practicability of making- cannibals into gentlemen, and entrusting those with the execution of political duties who have no notion of duty at all. — Sydney Atlas. The Executive Council was called together on Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of taking into consideration the late intelligence received from New Zealand, and to determine on what course to pursue. It is stated that 200 of the troops now stationed atParramata have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for an immediate departure to that colony. — Australian.

Tallow and Lard. — Lard has been bought by our merchants at 28s. The return say the London market will probably show that it will excell tallow in price, quality for quality full 25 per cent. Lard has hitherto, like pork, beef, baccn, hams, candles, and butter, been imported in great quantities. The import of such commodities into this colony, destitute as it is of mines and manufactures, and having no exports worth consideration save wool and oil, may to some appear a remote proof, but to me a direct and palpable proof, of the perverse and insane way in which the capital of the colony (both its own and borrowed) has. during the last ' ten years, been invested, It has been used up in the 1 exaltation of prices of lands and chattels ; not (as it ought to have been,) in creating any thing which did not exist before. A population of 150,000 souls occupies a territory greater than all England, containing not so much

good land as England, but a great deal ; and a large quantity of it on the sea-coast and inlets navigable for boats. The capitnl in the colony was excessive : yet we could not, or rather we did not raise our own bread and huxtery, without help from Van Diemen's Land and England. Tallow, as an export, was a discovery ; and the colonist who first practised it ought to have a dinner, and a piece of plate. The sacrifice of the carcass made it a discovery. Lard is no discovery ; yet the fattening of pigs principally for the production of lard, as an export, has never yet been practised. If the colony be too hot for wheat, it is not so for maize, potatoes, and pumpkins. The consumption of these is not equal to their supply. Hence the ruinously low price this season. Tens of thousands of bushels of maize, during the last three months, have been sold at a shilling a bushel. Consumed by the growers in the pigstye, the carcass salted down, and the lard exported, they might have got a fair return for their labour and capital. Lard is now used by English curriers in preference to oil. Lard, like tallow, is of many qualities, and of many prices. Figs fattened on potatoes, or Swedish turnips, (especially when not steamed,) produce an inferior oily lard, fit only for the curriers. The lard of a pig fed on dry maize meal, is the whitest, richest, and hardest in the world, and fit for every purpose. Although the subject of this letter should be read and thought worthy of attention by merchants and graziers, the class who are to create lard will never hear of it. The graziers and country storekeepers, therefore, should give information and advice to the little settlers in their neighbourhood, and offer to accept their lard at 4 certain price in payment for their rent, or for supplies of necessaries advanced them. Merchants, having debtors in the country, should inform them that lard will be considered by them as good payment, equal to tallow and wool. You, Gentlemen, by your exertions, caused tallow to become in one year a great export. Lard is capable of becoming a still greater export. For tallow is limited by the price of wool and meat. The production of lard for the next half century is as illimitable as the market to which it is to he sent, I therefore call on you to notice this letter, and to advert to the subject at least once a month, till its contents get to be universally considered by the non-readers of newspapers in remote parts — I mean the little freehold and tenant settlers. Rent in money in this colony is not an equitable, and therefore not a pa'iiio payment. The poverty of the tenant settlers (clearing leases), and the uncertainty of our seasons, render a money rent injudicious. Let landlords agree to take their rents in lard, — the price rated according to the article on which the pigs have been fattened.